pidd

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) pi'ddõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pitädäk.

Verb

pidd

1. hold

Salar

Etymology

Cognate with Kazakh бит (bit) (biyt), Karakalpak biyt (“louse”), Nogai [script needed] (biyt), Western Yugur [script needed] (bışt), Chuvash пыйтă (pyjtă). From earlier *biyt. Same phonetic change is seen in Salar idd.

Pronunciation

• (Ili, Xinjiang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /pʰiʃt/

Noun

pidd (3rd person possessive piddi, plural piddler)

1. louse

   Synonym: pit

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “piʃt”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 450
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “pid /pʰiʃt/”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[1], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 121
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “pit”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 90
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “pidd”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 265